Tagged: Supreme Court of British Columbia

Despite MPs’ strenuous efforts to avoid ever talking about what used to be called “deeply felt matters of faith and morals,” such a discussion is now upon them, courtesy of the Supreme Court of Canada, which Friday morning delivers its long-anticipated ruling on physician-assisted suicide.

Just after noon on Wednesday, Oct. 8, the 400-plus homeless residents of Oppenheimer Park – a makeshift tent city established in July to highlight the acute need for affordable housing in Vancouver – were given notice that the B.C. Supreme Court had granted an injunction to have them removed.

A court ruling at the centre of British Columbia's protracted teachers' strike, which has delayed the school year for half a million students, robs the government of its ability to set education policy, the province argues in documents related to an upcoming appeal.

PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. — British Columbia Supreme Court Justice Glen Parrett was careful to tell the jurors that a real-world trial is nothing like those portrayed on television, “not a smooth chronological narrative from beginning to end,” and right he is.

Tougher parole-eligibility rules introduced by the Conservative government a few years ago — and applied retroactively — violated offenders' Charter rights not to be punished twice, the country’s highest court has ruled.

The Canadian criminal justice system, which for years has “protected” women and minors who are sexually abused by keeping their identities secret, is being challenged — and by none other than some of the victims themselves.